Wealthy electorates are the least keen on Sunday penalty rates

On most Vote Compass questions, electorate-level responses tend to run along a spectrum from socially conservative seats to progressive ones.

The inner-city Labor and Greens-held electorates of Melbourne, Sydney, Cooper and Wills, characterised by educated professional voters, tend to sit at one end of the spectrum, while the rural and regional LNP-held electorates of Maranoa, Flynn, Hinkler and Wright in Queensland sit at the other.

But on industrial relations questions, the electoral pattern is different.

The top five electorates in favour of re-instating Sunday penalty rates are the safe Labor-held seats of Chifley, Hunter, Watson, Lindsay and Macarthur. All are in what have traditionally been working-class areas in Sydney and Newcastle.

The electorates least in favour of reversing the penalty rate cuts are Higgins, Kooyong, Wentworth and Curtin, the wealthiest electorates in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

The only outlier was the electorate of O'Connor, centred on the southern wheatbelt and mining regions of WA. All are safe Liberal seats, with the exception of Wentworth, which the Liberals lost last year to independent Kerryn Phelps.